Much of the data that follows came from David McCulloch, Nigel
Penberthy and Glyn Harries
with additional information from Wayne Bardell who managed the group for some time and Greg from the Tour Archive website. The
photocopies of some of the tickets are also courtesy of David McCulloch.
Although incomplete, it gives a pretty good picture of events
over a period of seven years (and then some). I know, for example that I saw the
band in a Glasgow ballroom near the ABC Cinema, Sauchiehall Street,
some time around 1975, but, unfortunately, I never retained the ticket and can't
pin down the date more precisely. I had ringing in my ears for two
days after their rendition of Real Love! If anyone can
provide further information, please let me know. All dates are given in UK
format (day/month).

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Sutherland
Brothers Band in 1971

24/7

City Hall, Truro

Supporting
Mott The Hoople - they said on stage that they were nervous as it was
their first ever gig. (Thanks to David Mitchell for that information.)

25/7

Guildhall, Plymouth

31/7

The Dome, Brighton

Supporting Mott The Hoople: Cancelled due to illness

7/8

Town Hall, Torquay

Supporting Mott The Hoople

29/8

Lyceum, London

Supporting Mott The Hoople

8/9

Free trade
Hall, Manchester

Supporting Cat Stevens, who had just released Morning
Has Broken and was touring his album Teaser and the Firecat.

Melody
Maker, on 4/8 reported that during a gig in Manchester by Rod Stewart & the Faces,
Kenny Jones had taken ill and was hospitalised. The article goes on:
"Gavin Sutherland, a guitarist by trade, took over the drums for Twisting The Night Away."
[See clippings for more details.]

15/8

Mobile Municipal Auditorium,
AL

Nine week tour
of the USA, supporting Elton John.

Steeley
Dan were on the bill in San Diego and also for the Dallas Cotton Bowl.
Dates added to and confirmed by Karl Speck, concert archivist,
and thanks also to Alex Roel for the advert above.

The programme shown here is advertising the Cardiff
Festival West Coast Rock Show, with Bob Marley, Country Joe, Eric Burdon
& The Pretty Things. The original is on sale for $845 (yes, that's no
misprint) from
Wolfgang's Vault.

1977, supported by City Boy and later by an unnamed solo
singer/guitarist, possibly Alan Ross:

9/9

Belfast Ulster Hall

10/9

Dublin Stadium

18/9

Birmingham Odeon Cinema

19/9

Sheffield City Hall

22/9

Dunstable Civic Hall

24/9

London Rainbow

25/9

Bristol Colston Hall

27/9

Guildford Civic Hall

29/9

Glasgow Apollo

1/10

Edinburgh Usher Hall

2/10

Dundee Caird Hall

3/10

Aberdeen Capitol

6/10

Hanley Victoria Hall

7/10

Lancaster University

8/10

Leeds University

9/10

York Theatre Royal

12/10

Hull City Hall

14/10

Cardiff University

15/10

Southampton Guildhall

16/10

Plymouth Guildhall

17/10

Exeter University

18/10

Oxford New Theatre

19/10

Nottingham Albert Hall

20/10

Liverpool Empire

21/10

Croydon Fairfield Hall

22/10

Eastbourne Congress Theatre

25/10

Hanley (Stoke-on-Trent) Victoria Hall

26/10

Manchester Apollo

27/10

Swansea Brangwyn Hall

1978:

1/10

Civic Theatre, Leamington Spa

The tour,
as initially planned, was disrupted, due to the illness of Willie
Wilson. Originally thought to have had hepatitis, Willie, in the end,
was diagnosed with tonsillitis.

The dates
shown are the ones that took place once the tour resumed, following
Willie's bout of ill health.

2/10

Sheffield Polytechnic

3/10

Top of the World, Stafford

4/10

Birmingham University

5/10

Plymouth Polytechnic

11/10

Patti Pavilion, Swansea

12/10

Winning Post, Twickenham

15/10

Marquee, London

18/10

Community Centre, Slough

19/10

Loughborough University

23/10

Corn Exchange, Bedford

24/10

Manchester Polytechnic

25/10

Bath University

26/10

Bristol University

1979 as the Sutherland Brothers Band, with Steve Simpson (
lead guitar),
Mick Weaver (keyboards), Chrissie Stewart (bass) & Billy
Rankin (drums). Support was the Bliss Band for the first three gigs, then, fresh
off supporting Nils Lofgren on tour, Live Wire:

27/9

Wales Polytechnic, Treforest

28/9

Bath University

29/9

Bradford University

30/9

Blackburn King George's Hall

1/10

Aberystwyth University

2/10

Bournemouth Town Hall

4/10

Durham University

5/10

Newcastle Poly

6/10

Aberdeen University

7/10

Dundee University

8/10

Ayr Pavilion

9/10

Strathclyde University,
Glasgow

11/10

Middlesborough Town Hall

12/10

Birmingham Aston University

13/10

Manchester University

14/10

Ipswich Gaumont

17/10

Sheffield Polytechnic

19/10

Croydon Fairfield Halls

20/10

Reading University

21/10

Peterborough ABC

In 1983 (3
December), Gavin & Iain performed at a wedding reception in Stoke for a friend,
Chris Ellis, who played bass in Demon. Gavin had been involved in occasional
work, including recordings, with Demon around that time, so the reception
entertainment consisted of several people getting on stage from time to time and
jamming. As well as the two Suths, there were members of Demon and the great
contemporary folk singer, Michael Chapman.

And then in
1986, the last ever Sutherland Brothers
professional gig (unless
you know differently):

9/8/86 Cropredy Festival (the annual Fairport Convention
festival). Iain & Gavin appeared on the Saturday of this
festival, performing a few numbers as a duo, before being joined
by Jerry Donahue (guitar), Dave Pegg (bass) and Dave Mattacks (drums).